PKG_CHECK-VERSION(1)

💖 pkg_check-version(1) 💖

okay bestie, this is the General Commands Manual page for pkg_check-version, and it's literally here to verify parsing and ordering of package names. no cap 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

pkg_check-version — verify parsing and ordering of package names.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pkg_check-version [-Hv] pkgname ...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

pkg_check-version takes a list of pkgname and processes them, fr fr:

• each name is parsed and checked for issues.
• in addition, comparable names (same stem and same flavor) are sorted from older to newer version. yes, matching names get ordered, and it's giving organized 💅

Options are as follows:

• -H — displays a human-readable version of each pkgname (full version parsing, including known suffixes, dewey numbers parsing, REVISION, EPOCH, flavor markers). it's the full breakdown, bestie ✨
• -v — verbose mode, which will explicitly state pkgname with no issues and sort one element lists. lowkey chatty, highkey useful 🎀

💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

the pkg_check-version utility exits with 0, unless one of the pkgname was malformed, or two names are actually non comparable (such as moo-1.23pre1 and moo-1.23rc1). that's the vibe check failing, and it is not slay 😭

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

packages-specs(7)

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Marc Espie <espie@openbsd.org>

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mwah 💋 this page is Debian-flavored, dated April 19, 2022.